For the wannabe bookworm
Project: The Total Library

I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind.

I will rarely manage a whole book.

I will rarely manage a whole review of a book.

For those out there like me - and for me - will you please imply your endorsement of a book in the following format?

1. Two-sentence summary —> 2. One-sentence summary —> 3. One-word summary

I'll start, with Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus:

• "If we were to talk about the relation between language and the world - as philosophers would like to - we would have to step outside of language, and so would not be able to talk. So the propositions of philiosophy, this book included, are nonsense."


• "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."


• "Shhh!"

Mon, Apr 7, 2008  Permanent link
Categories: Books, narrative, Nicholson Baker, Wittgenstein
Sent to project: The Total Library